The spiked iron coffin is the most famous medieval torture device in the world. But no record mentions it before the 18th century: this is how the legend was born.
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In short According to legend, in the 16th century Alexander “Sawney” Bean and his 48-strong clan, born of incest, lived
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In short Around 1500, in Switzerland, Jacob Nufer, a pig gelder, is said to have performed on his wife Elisabeth
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The years of the “Cold War”, which see the United States of America and the Soviet Union in opposition, are
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When we talk about “witch-hunting”, the memory and the collective imagination run to an ancient past made of tortures, burning
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In short In 1888, during Stanley’s expedition in the Congo, James Sligo Jameson, heir to the Jameson whiskey family, allegedly
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In short The crinoline, the cage of metal hoops that from the mid-19th century widened women’s skirts, was extremely flammable.
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In short Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), a Hungarian noblewoman, was accused with four servants of torturing and killing hundreds of girls
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In short Human zoos were exhibitions in which people from other cultures, mostly Africans, Asians and Native Americans, were shown
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In short Who: Sir Harold Delf Gillies (Dunedin, 17 June 1882 – London, 10 September 1960). Why he is famous:
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